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Career Compass
“Career Compass” is an integral career management guide for mid and early-career professionals, fresh graduates, and college students. Just like a compass in the hand of an explorer, this book will help you know what your “true north”, ideal career is, and will then guide you to pursue it.
With no fluffing or too many buzzwords, this book offers you a step-by-step, hands-on approach to plan, develop, and lead a fulfilling career. The starting point is to assist you -via a complete self-assessment battery- to become aware of your interests, motivators, and strengths. Once you gain this valuable awareness about yourself, you will be shown how to craft a solid career plan that best matches you. After that, the book will illustrate how to work this plan out by offering practical recipes for handling every major step in your journey.
This book strives to strike a balance between the need to grasp the big picture, and the need to nail down the nitty gritty details. While it gives you a strategic mindset on how to think about your professional life and career choices, it also advises you on matters like how to negotiate your salary, how to manage your boss, and how to impress other people, and it goes further down to discuss things like the best font type for your resume and the best suit colour for your job interview.
With no fluffing or too many buzzwords, this book offers you a step-by-step, hands-on approach to plan, develop, and lead a fulfilling career. The starting point is to assist you -via a complete self-assessment battery- to become aware of your interests, motivators, and strengths. Once you gain this valuable awareness about yourself, you will be shown how to craft a solid career plan that best matches you. After that, the book will illustrate how to work this plan out by offering practical recipes for handling every major step in your journey.
This book strives to strike a balance between the need to grasp the big picture, and the need to nail down the nitty gritty details. While it gives you a strategic mindset on how to think about your professional life and career choices, it also advises you on matters like how to negotiate your salary, how to manage your boss, and how to impress other people, and it goes further down to discuss things like the best font type for your resume and the best suit colour for your job interview.
190 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2013
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About the author
Mohamed Ibrahim
1 book11 followersMohamed Ibrahim is a university lecturer and a management consultant with more than sixteen years of professional experience in strategic planning, program management, and learning and development. He worked in various multinational organizations in Egypt and in the Gulf region.
He currently lives and works in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his doctorate degree in business administration from the Arab Academy Graduate School of Business (AAGSB). He is also certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt and as a Project Management Professional. He lectures a series of management and leadership courses at ESLSCA Business School.
Dr. Mohamed tries to employ his expertise and knowledge to help people advance their careers, and help organizations get the most out of their people, by offering one-on-one career mentoring as well as tailored training courses in the self-help area, including topics like decision making, interpersonal skills, negotiation, and personal development.
He currently lives and works in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his doctorate degree in business administration from the Arab Academy Graduate School of Business (AAGSB). He is also certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt and as a Project Management Professional. He lectures a series of management and leadership courses at ESLSCA Business School.
Dr. Mohamed tries to employ his expertise and knowledge to help people advance their careers, and help organizations get the most out of their people, by offering one-on-one career mentoring as well as tailored training courses in the self-help area, including topics like decision making, interpersonal skills, negotiation, and personal development.
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July 19, 2024
I recieved it about 3 days ago, I have to say that this book is very helpful and practical, I think I will need to read it in future, I'd recommend it for fresh graduates, college students, or even for people who still can't decide their career plan this book will help you alot.
October 22, 2013
It has been long time since I read a book that really could make a difference and make you feel that you can be on control of your career.
The first two chapters help you to find your “True North” career and help you to craft a solid career plan, an urgent task I have been postponing as I didn't know from where I could start, but these two chapters helped me to know where I am in my career journey and whether I am on track or not.
The rest of the book consists of achievable action-oriented tools with a lot of well employed inspiring stories and real experience incidents that everyone faces in his career, with true recommendations of the best way to approach these challenges.
It is a complete manual that starts from determining your best career and goes with from the start of the journey of writing a resume and master the interview and negotiating to the salary, passing through how could you be distinguished through your work, and ending with how to handle the stress of your day to day work.
If you are looking for a real enhancement in your career through actions that could be really done and need to witness a progress in your career, go for this book…
The first two chapters help you to find your “True North” career and help you to craft a solid career plan, an urgent task I have been postponing as I didn't know from where I could start, but these two chapters helped me to know where I am in my career journey and whether I am on track or not.
The rest of the book consists of achievable action-oriented tools with a lot of well employed inspiring stories and real experience incidents that everyone faces in his career, with true recommendations of the best way to approach these challenges.
It is a complete manual that starts from determining your best career and goes with from the start of the journey of writing a resume and master the interview and negotiating to the salary, passing through how could you be distinguished through your work, and ending with how to handle the stress of your day to day work.
If you are looking for a real enhancement in your career through actions that could be really done and need to witness a progress in your career, go for this book…
October 18, 2013
Ok .. I don't know how to say that ... I had a big conflicts with my current managers and issues seems that they will never sort out.. I bought this new book after one of my friends recommended it to me and I found this magnificent chapter of how to manage your Boss. They were eight simple advices that had a dramatic impact in my relationship with my manager, as finally we find a way to deal with each other.
This made me go through many other chapters like "impress others" and "learn how to motivate" that inspired me with many ways to motivate my team.
The book is really helpful and I would recommend it.
This made me go through many other chapters like "impress others" and "learn how to motivate" that inspired me with many ways to motivate my team.
The book is really helpful and I would recommend it.
November 3, 2013
The author has consolidated all his practical experience around the topic of the book. The chapters of the book are smartly named and structured where each chapter covers an important aspect in relation to career progression. Almost all aspects of career progression are covered. Each chapter is to the point and consists of practical tips. I think it is a must read book which would direct the reader to making the right career decisions.
September 10, 2016
I found this book to be one from the books you must have at your bookshelf.
A very simple one that lead you through your career path from the first step where you choose what job you seek to the end where you manage your own business or your top management position.
Really very glad that I got this copy from the writer as I know it will help me through my own career path.
A very simple one that lead you through your career path from the first step where you choose what job you seek to the end where you manage your own business or your top management position.
Really very glad that I got this copy from the writer as I know it will help me through my own career path.
October 22, 2014
I don't think the assessments included are calibrated well compared to others.
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